XMPP Radar Newsletter #15

We are happy to introduce our new ejabberd release, ejabberd 16.09. As usual it includes many bug fixes and improvements. But most of all, it includes excellent student work done for Google Summer of Code program. Thanks to Anna Mukharram and Gabriel Gatu for their contributions.

In this video, Mickaël Rémond summarises important principles developers need to be aware of when building their own modern XMPP messaging platform. The video was recorded at ejabberd Advanced Erlang Workshop in Paris.

What if the world’s multitude of telephone networks weren’t compatible with one another — if the average Canadian household needed to have three telephone lines, one to talk to Telus customers in Western Canada, another to connect with Bell customers in the east and a third to chat with family in the U.S.?

With Gartner Inc. expecting enterprise investment in connected devices and related technologies to reach $1.4 trillion per year by 2020, it’s no surprise that IT vendors are so enthusiastic about the trend.